Re: Mimesweeper

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Mimesweeper
Date: 19:34 on 16 Jun 2006

Pete Hunt wrote:
> Dear Mimesweeper,
> 
> If you don't have a parser for a particular email attachment(1), can I 
> suggest that you remove the option to grep the binary for things that 
> might even remotely look like "naughty" words and then block the the 
> attachment based upon whatever random fucking text strings you happen to 
> find? (2)
> 
> (1) MS Publisher file, so it's not _that_ obscure.
> (2) Yes, this is a user-configurable option.  No, I have no control over 
> the filter.  Yes, I want to kill the filter admin (3).
> (3) "But how did you find the text strings in the binary?"
> 
> Hatefully
> 
> Pete

For quite a while the HTML documentation of ActivePerl contained
something dubious enough to make Symantec Antivirus to scream bloody
murder.  As far as I can remember, no, the doc didn't contain "How To
Write a Virus in Win32 Perl in 10 Ten Easy Steps".

Mimesweeper Pete Hunt 19:21 on 16 Jun 2006
- Re: Mimesweeper Jarkko Hietaniemi 19:34 on 16 Jun 2006

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